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Despite 10 Catholic bishops in China in being held detention, “disappeared” or forced from their positions, the government-installed bishop of Shanghai at a conference this month spoke only on President Xi Jinping’s “Sinicization” of religion, without mentioning hoped-for pastoral plans.
Shen Bin, installed as bishop of Shanghai by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on April 4, 2023 — more than three months before Pope Francis officially “appointed” him to the post — did not mention the prior month’s Vatican Synod or the resulting papal documents at the Nov. 4-6 conference on Sinicization, according to human rights magazine Bitter Winter.
“On the contrary, he focused on ‘Sinicization,’ which, as it is now clear, does not mean adapting religion to Chinese customs but to the CCP’s ideology,” Bitter Winter reported. “An optimist could object that Bishop Shen Bin did not explicitly tell Shanghai Catholics ‘not’ to listen to the pope’s teachings, which oppose the CCP’s ideas on key matters such as abortion and the role of religion in society. But for a bishop ignoring the pope and his documents in such solemn events is tantamount to rejecting them.”
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Shen Bin, installed as bishop of Shanghai by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on April 4, 2023 — more than three months before Pope Francis officially “appointed” him to the post — did not mention the prior month’s Vatican Synod or the resulting papal documents at the Nov. 4-6 conference on Sinicization, according to human rights magazine Bitter Winter.
“On the contrary, he focused on ‘Sinicization,’ which, as it is now clear, does not mean adapting religion to Chinese customs but to the CCP’s ideology,” Bitter Winter reported. “An optimist could object that Bishop Shen Bin did not explicitly tell Shanghai Catholics ‘not’ to listen to the pope’s teachings, which oppose the CCP’s ideas on key matters such as abortion and the role of religion in society. But for a bishop ignoring the pope and his documents in such solemn events is tantamount to rejecting them.”
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Xi-appointed bishop speaks only of 'Sinicization’ of religion, no mention of persecuted clergy
Despite 10 Catholic bishops in China being held in detention, disappeared or forced from their positions, the government-installed bishop of Shanghai spoke only on President Xi Jinping s Sinicization
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